Coin-holder for pocket-books, purses, &amp;c.



No. 663,0l6. Patented Dec. 4, I900.

M. H, EISEMAN.

COIN HOLDER FOR POCKET BOOKS, PURSES, 8:0. (Application filed Feb, 17, 1900.\

(No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES I-I. EISEMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COIN-HOLDER FOR POCKET-BOOKS, PURSES, 80o.

SPECIFICATION forming part bf Letters Patent No. 663,016, dated. December 4, 1900. Application filed February 17, 1900. Serial No. 5,574. (No model.)

To ctZZ whown it may concern:

Be it known that I, MOSES H. EISEMAN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Holders for Pocket- Books, Purses, and the Like, of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming a part of the same, is a full and complete description, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to understand, make, and use the same.

One object of this invention is to obtain a coin-holder which may be placed between the outer and inner cover in an ordinary pocket-book or purse to hold dimes or nickels, as for street-oar fare, in such manner that the same may be readily released by the hand holding the pocket-book, one at a time, when wanted without opening the pocketbook and without removal of the cover by the person using the pocket-book.

A further object is to obtain a compartment, separated from and independent of the rest of the pocket-book, in which coin for street-car fare or for other purposes may be placed, so that the contents of the pocketbook. other than the coin contained in the device embodying this invention may be used without thought or reference to car-fare or other matter or thing for which coin has been reserved in such coin-holder.

In the drawings referred to as forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a coin-holder embodying this invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3, an end elevation, as on the end provided with dotted line 3 3 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows, crossing such dotted line; Fig. 4, an end elevation of the opposite end of the coin-holder, such View being also indicated by a dotted line which is lettered t 4: and having arrows thereon indicating-the point of view; Fig. 5, a perspective view of one side and end of a pocket-book having the device embodying this invention, which is illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4, all inclusive, inserted therein.

A reference-letter applied to designate a given part is used to indicate such part throughout the several figures of the drawings wherever the same appears.

A is a coin-holder, preferably made of sheet metal and formed up to make the body part and the folded edges a a, thereby obtaining the grooves (1, in which grooves the coin slides.

0. is a stop at the inner end of the coinholder, designed to prevent a coin from passing out from the coin-holder in between the outer and inner cover of the pocketbook.

B is a movable retaining device at the outer end of the coin-holder, yieldingly held in a closed position and when closed having the handle or operating part 19 thereof extended, so that the same may be retracted by pressing the same through the outer cover of the pocket-book in which the device is obtained. When this retaining device B, as is illustrated inthe drawings, is of spring sheet metal the parts I) b constitute the springs holding the handle I) in an extended position and the retaining end I) in position closing the outlet of the device.

I) b are also retaining projections designed to be held in a retracted position when the retaining end I) is extended to close the outlet of the coin-holder and to be forced into a retaining position when the handle I) is de pressed and the retaining end 19 is retracted. By means of the retaining projections 19 but one coin is delivered at a time, although the coin-holder be filled at the time. The fold or bend a. is cut away, as indicated by the dotted line C, to permit the retaining projections 11 b to move forward into operative or retaining position, as last above described.

D D are the fulcrums on which the retaining device B turns and may be formed, as illustrated, integral wi th the metal sheet from which the coin-holder B is bent up, as above described.

The coin-holder constructed as above is readily inserted between the outer and inner cover of the flap of a pocket-book or between the outer and inner cover of the flap of a pocketin a body-belt, chatelaine-bag, or other like place, so that the end of the coin-holder having the retaining device will discharge a coin, when the device is operated, into the hands of the person holding or wearing the I number of coins therein or is filled. To use one of such coins, the pocket-book is turned so that the coins will fall by gravity with one thereof close to contact with the retaining device B. The handle of the retaining device is depressed, and a coin will drop out from the coin-holder for use.

By means of this device a lady may, when the same is placed in a pocket-book, bodybelt, or chatelaine-bag, at all times easily obtain car-fare without removing her gloves and with but little trouble.

The advantages of the device are particularly great when many parcels or packages are being carried by the person using the device.

Having thus described my invention and the manner in which it is operated, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination of a coin-holder with a pocket-book, such coin-holder consisting of a coin-receptacle inserted between the inner and the outer cover of one flap of the pocketbook and a retaining device yieldingly held in an extended position closing the outer end of the coin-receptacle and provided. with a handle operative through the outer cover of the flap to retract such retaining device Without opening the pocket-book; substantially as described.

2. The combination of a coin-holder with a pocket-book, such coin-holder consisting of a coin-receptacle inserted between the inner and the outer cover of one flap of the pocketbook, the coin-receptacle comprising a blank bent up to obtain grooves in which the coin slides and a retaining device yieldingly held in an extended position closing the outer end yieldingly held in an extended position clos-,

ing the outer end of the holder, a fulcrum on which the retaining device turns, retaining projections on the retaining device back of the fulcrum thereof, such retaining projections adapted to be retracted from the path of the coin when the outer end of the coinholder is closed by the retaining device and to be projected into the path of the coin when the retaining device is retracted to permit a coin to pass from the holder and such retaining device being provided with a handle by which it may be operated substantially as described.

4. A coin-holder consisting of a blank bent up to obtain grooves,a stop at the inner end of the holder and a retaining device yieldingly held in an extended position at the outer end of such holder, retaining projections yieldingly held in a retracted position and attached to the retaining device, a fulcrum between the outer end of the retaining device and the retaining projections attached thereto, and the retaining device provided with a handle, in combination with a pocket-book between the outer and inner covers of one flap whereof the coin-holder is inserted; substantially as described.

MOSES H. EISEMAN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES TURNER BROWN, FLORA L. BROWN. 

